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A Hanging Offence

2015 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2015
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis A Hanging Offence by : Don Cummer

Download or read book A Hanging Offence written by Don Cummer. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to Brothers at War finds best friends Jacob and Eli on opposite sides of the battlefield as the War of 1812 erupts. Jacob and Eli may be blood brothers, but they are on opposite sides in the battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. While Jacob joins John Norton's Mohawk band fighting with the British-Canadian side, Eli fights with the Americans. The Canadians win the day, but the victory comes at a great cost: the death of General Brock. Eli is captured and jailed. Because he swore the oath of allegiance to the Crown before he left Canada, his return with the invaders makes him a traitor. He is charged with high treason -- a hanging offence. Can Jacob save his friend from the gallows?

Brothers at War

2013-10 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2013-10
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis Brothers at War by : Don Cummer

Download or read book Brothers at War written by Don Cummer. This book was released on 2013-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friend or villain? Brother or traitor? This compelling story of wartime friendship brings the looming War of 1812 to dramatic life. Jacob is a steadfast Loyalist. Eli is a newcomer to Upper Canada, whose family has just moved from the American South. The two boys become fast friends, but their friendship is tested when Eli's father refuses to pledge allegiance to the Crown. As Loyalists in Upper Canada become more and more suspicious of those with American leanings, the looming war threatens to pull the boys -- and their town -- apart. Peopled with key figures from the War of 1812, such as General Isaac Brock and newspaperman-turned-traitor Joseph Willcocks, Brothers at War portrays the tense era just before the War of 1812, which pitted neighbour against neighbour as Upper Canada prepared to fend off invading American forces.

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

2018-05-17 History
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Release : 2018-05-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 087/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse by : Sarah Tarlow

Download or read book Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse written by Sarah Tarlow. This book was released on 2018-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.

Execution

2011-12-31 History
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Release : 2011-12-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 623/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Execution by : Simon Webb

Download or read book Execution written by Simon Webb. This book was released on 2011-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was being used in England five hundred years before the guillotine was invented. Boiling to death was a prescribed means of execution in this country during the Tudor period. From the public death by starvation of those gibbeted alive, to the burning of women for petit treason, this book examines some of the most gruesome passages of British history. This carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to those interested in the history of British executions.

A Handbook on Hanging

1999-10-31 Political Science
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Release : 1999-10-31
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis A Handbook on Hanging by : Charles Duff

Download or read book A Handbook on Hanging written by Charles Duff. This book was released on 1999-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.

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